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Review
. 2023 Feb;72(2):121-127.
doi: 10.1007/s00101-022-01239-z. Epub 2022 Nov 30.

[Infection prevention in the operating theater: practice-oriented recommendations for anesthesiologists]

[Article in German]
Maximilian Schnetzinger  1 , Ojan Assadian  2 , Klaus Markstaller  3 , Klaus Ulrich Klein  3
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[Infection prevention in the operating theater: practice-oriented recommendations for anesthesiologists]

[Article in German]
Maximilian Schnetzinger et al. Anaesthesiologie. 2023 Feb.

Abstract
in English, German

This article is intended to provide clinically working anesthesiologists with a practice-oriented overview of selected important current guidelines and recommendations pertaining to intraoperative prevention of infection. The contents of this article are based on the guidelines or recommendation of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany (AWMF) as well as the Commission for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention (KRINKO) at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). The authors' objective is to foster and support the standard of infection prevention and control in the operating theater by optimizing the standard of hygiene in daily practice to reduce the number of perioperative infections.

Der vorliegende Artikel soll klinisch tätigen AnästhesistInnen einen praxisorientierten Überblick zu ausgewählten, wichtigen Empfehlungen der Hygiene im OP-Bereich vermitteln. Die Inhalte des Artikels basieren auf den Leitlinien oder Empfehlungen der World Health Organisation (WHO), der Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Wissenschaftlichen Medizinischen Fachgesellschaften (AWMF) sowie der Kommission für Krankenhaushygiene und Infektionsprävention (KRINKO) am Robert Koch-Institut (RKI). Die Zielsetzung der Autoren ist es, den Hygienestandard in der täglichen Praxis zu optimieren, um die Zahl perioperativer Infektionen zu reduzieren.

Keywords: Guidelines; Hygiene recommendations; Perioperative hygiene; Risc of infection; Surgical site infections.

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